More of an essayist and philospher than a poet, he wrote a few sonnets. Sir Francis Bacon was a politican in the Elizabethean times, a respected man who held many positions. Eventually he was tried for corruption, fined, and never allowed into public service again. He lived out the rest of his life as an intellectual, writing sonnets, essays, and philosphical and scientific treatises.

Great Works-Essays, New Atlantis, De Augmentus Scientarum, Novum Organum